Karnataka: Cab driver gets 10-year jail for marrying, raping minor girl

Tumakuru: A court here has sentenced a 29-year old cab driver to 10 years rigorous imprisonment fine of Rs 40,000 for marrying, raping minor girl in 2014. Convict S Gajendra was 23 and a married man when he took the 16-year-old girl from her village near Sira taluk in his cab on October 2, 2015.

According to the chargesheet filed by Sira police, the accused took the girl to different places, including Sagar, Shivamogga and Dharmasthala, where he married her. Between October 2015 and November 2015, the accused lived with the girl at a friend’s house in Bengaluru.

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By first week of November, Sira police, based on the complaint filed by the girl’s father, arrested Gajendra under section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act and different sections of Indian Penal Code.

Public prosecutor GV Gayathri Raju said that the orders were passed by Judge N Krishnaiah of Additional Fast Track court.

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